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Residents of Hawaii received a chilling message on their smartphones Saturday morning – and people took it seriously. “BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL,” the notification from the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency ...

The city of New York is using eminent domain to seize a family-owned dry-cleaning business and offering the owners only about 30 percent of the value. “The city has offered my family about 30 cents on the dollar on the ...

The state of Oregon has finally loosened restrictions that prohibited residents from pumping their own gas – even though it’s still illegal in most of the state. Self-service gas stations became legal in 15 rural Oregon counties on Monday. The ...

LOS ANGELES — Disaster can strike everywhere — even in some of America’s richest and most exclusive neighborhoods. Six wildfires have destroyed homes and caused the closure of one of America’s busiest freeways around Los Angeles while forcing nearly 200,000 ...

North Korea tested a powerful new Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Wednesday that experts say can reach any location on Earth. The Hwasong-15 missile has a range of 8,100 miles — enough to hit any target in the United States. “Such ...

The ultimate off-grid home also might be the world’s most isolated. It is a hunting lodge located on the island of Elliðaey, which is in the North Atlantic off the southern coast of Iceland. The house has a 110-acre island ...

The state of Alaska has no plans to evacuate citizens in the event of a North Korean nuclear attack. Instead, residents are being told to stay in place and stockpile food, water, flashlights and radios. “Really the recommendation for people ...

Nov. 15, 2017 No one’s financial information is safe from hackers at the Internal Revenue Service — not even President Trump’s. That’s according to fraud investigator John Powers, who suspects Trump’s tax returns have been stolen from the IRS. Powers ...

Turning a cave into a modern home is not easy or cheap, as homeowner Angelo Mastropietro discovered. He invested £162,000 ($204,000) – and lots of physical labor — to transform an abandoned cave into a state-of-the-art off-grid home. But he ...

Simply talking to a strange child in public can lead to a police visit in Australia. An 80-year-old man was stopped by a plainclothes police officer and then visited at his home by two detectives — simply because he chatted ...